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No.
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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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2233
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Jonathan
Gardner
Andrew
J.
Oswald
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Money and Mental Wellbeing: A Longitudinal Study of Medium-Sized Lottery Wins
One of the famous questions in social science is whether money makes people happy. We offer new evidence by using longitudinal data on a random sample of Britons who receive medium-sized lottery wins ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2007, 26 (1), 49-60)
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D1, I3
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2232
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Laszlo
Goerke
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Earnings-Related Severance Pay
In an efficiency wage economy, lump-sum severance pay from which shirkers can be excluded raises employment. However, severance payments are usually related to wages. It is shown that ...
(published in: Labour, 2006, 20 (4), 651-672)
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J32, J41, J65
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2230
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Brian
Krogh
Graversen
Peter
Jensen
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A Reappraisal of the Virtues of Private Sector Employment Programmes
In this paper, we evaluate the employment effects of Danish active labour market programmes aimed at welfare benefit recipients. We estimate an econometric model with treatment effects and discrete ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2010, 112 (3), 546-569)
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I38, J64, J68
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2229
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Paola
Giuliano
Antonio
Spilimbergo
Giovanni
Tonon
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Genetic, Cultural and Geographical Distances
This paper investigates how the measures of genetic distance between populations, which have been used in anthropology and historical linguistics, can be used in economics. What does the correlation ...
(published as 'Genetic Distance, Transportation Costs, and Trade' in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2014, 14 (1), 179-198)
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Z10, F10
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2228
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Ken
Clark
Joanne
Lindley
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Immigrant Labour Market Assimilation and Arrival Effects: Evidence from the UK Labour Force Survey
We estimate models of earnings and employment outcomes for a sample of white and non-white male immigrants drawn from the Labour Force Survey between 1993 and 2002. Immigrants who arrived to enter ...
(revised version published as 'Immigrant assimilation pre and post labour market entry: evidence from the UK Labour Force Survey' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2009, 22 (1), 175-198)
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J23, J7
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2227
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Charles
Bellemare
Bruce
S.
Shearer
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Sorting, Incentives and Risk Preferences: Evidence from a Field Experiment
The, often observed, positive correlation between incentive intensity and risk has been explained in two ways: the presence of transaction costs as determinants of contracts and the sorting of ...
( published in: Economics Letters, 2010, 108 (3), 345-348)
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J33, M52, C93
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2226
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José
Ramón
García
Hector
Sala
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The Tax System Incidence on Unemployment: A Country-Specific Analysis for the OECD Economies
This paper provides a detailed analysis on the incidence of the tax structure on the labor market. To do so it goes beyond the traditional examination of the ‘level’ effect of the fiscal wedge and ...
(published in: Economic Modelling, 2008, 25 (6), 1232-1245)
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E24, E62
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2225
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Matteo
Cervellati
Piergiuseppe
Fortunato
Uwe
Sunde
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Consensual and Conflictual Democratization
We study the process of endogenous democratization from inefficient oligarchic systems in an economy where heterogeneous individuals can get involved in predation activities. The features of ...
(revised version published in: B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 2012, 12 (1), Article 33)
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H10, O20, N10
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2224
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Augustin
de Coulon
François-Charles
Wolff
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The Location of Immigrants at Retirement: Stay/Return or ‘Va-et-Vient’?
In this paper, we investigate the location choice of immigrants when retiring. In a context where labour considerations no longer matter, the location decisions are expected to depend not only on a ...
(published as: "Location intentions of immigrants at retirement: stay/return or go "back and forth?", in: Applied Economics, 2010, 42 (26), 3319-33)
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J26, O15, R23
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2223
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Marcel
Neutel
Almas
Heshmati
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Globalisation, Inequality and Poverty Relationships: A Cross Country Evidence
In this research, the relationship between globalisation and poverty and income inequality is determined. A whole new globalisation index has been constructed based on data covering a large sample of ...
(published in: Vandana Sjajan (ed.), Globalization and Income Inequality, The ICFAI University Press: Hyderabad, 2010)
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C43, F15, O57
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